Penske Axes Indycar Team Leadership to Indy 500 fraud scandal

The month of May is almost the conclusion when the Indianapolis are 500 less than a week away. While Rookie Robert Shwartzman's shock -pole is supposed to dominate among the fans who are on Sunday, another team of Penske fragrances has overshadowed the occasion. The Indycar team announced on Wednesday that it separated from all its managers. The second fraud scandal in two years raised questions about the integrity of the competition, in particular with the potential conflict caused by Penske's ownership of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the IndyCar series.

This debacle began before the second qualification on Sunday, when the Penke cars from Josef Newgarden and wants to be Power out of line because one of them lacked the technical inspection before the run. The specification damping in the back of the cars had filled a gap and smoothed. Serial officials received a number of punishments against Penske to change parts of the specification, including the suspension of the strategists of both entries and two fines of $ 100,000. In addition, Newgarden and power will start the race from the back of the field.

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The severity of the punishments or the absence brought a wave of criticism from his rivals. McLaren driver Pato O'Ward said that the Penskes should have been forced to defend their starting place in the race, and suspected that their cars were not legal on Saturday. This outcry came before Team Penske killed his own internal punishments. The team announced the departure of team president Tim Cindric, managing director Ron Ruzewski and General Manager Kyle Moyer. In a statement, Roger Penske said:

“Nothing is more important than the integrity of our sport and our racing team. We have had organizational failure in the past two years and have had to make the necessary changes. I apologize to our fans, our partners and our organizations to let them down.

Indycar admitted that it had missed illegal modification during the inspection because it was an area of ​​the car that is available for security reasons. It is a ridiculous excuse not to consistently check a security component on a car that drives more than 230 miles an hour on a route lined by the wall.

The series also mentioned that it should create an independent body to act and end the series and end the Penske's conflict of interest. Last year it reached a boiling point for the first time that Penske drivers found illegal access to the push-to-pass boost system in their car. Josef Newgarden and his team -mate Scott McLaughlin were excluded 45 days after the race from the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Newgarden was the racing winner. An independent referee will not guarantee the end of the fraud in Indycar, but it would end the concerns that Team Penske is granted the scope that other teams do not do.

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